Alizé De Buck @BuckAlize

I was chatting to a friend and we were discussing the strange way in which some politicians, presenters, journalists and commentators appear to have had a sudden epiphany about the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. She then reminded me of this book…

Arming Israel. Bombing Yemen. Cutting aid. This government’s obsession with militarism is out of control — and it is the poorest people in the world paying the price. We are all human beings on one planet. Surely that is a good enough reason to try and build a world of peace.

Labour’s swingeing cuts to benefits continue a long tradition of equating human worth with participation in paid employment — an unnecessary, immoral, counterproductive way to run a society. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/04/your-w…

In 2013, Thomas Piketty had an unexpected bestseller (a 750 page economics book translated from French!) *Capital in the 21st Century*. 1/

What do I think of neurodiversity? ‘The sociologist who invented the term ‘neurodiversity’, Dr Judy Singer argued that everyone was neurodiverse. She argued that there was no typical brain per se. She clearly states throughout her work that autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and dyspraxia were just part of the endless variations of the human brain and mind - and that none of them constituted ‘disorders’. Much like me, her focus was on creating an approach that could challenge the ‘disorder’ language of psychiatry. Simply put, Dr Judy Singer created the term on purpose to argue that ‘neurodiversity’ was simply a spectrum of how unique and individual all our brains are, and that there is no one typical way of thinking or processing anything. “I knew what I was doing,” she states in the 2023 interview of her in The Guardian. “‘Neuro’ was a reference to the rise of neuroscience. ‘Diversity’ is a political term; it originated with the black American civil rights movement. ‘Biodiversity’ is really a political term, too. As a word, ‘neurodiversity’ describes the whole of humanity. But the neurodiversity movement is a political movement for people who want their human rights.” This quote from the interview last year is absolutely vital in our understanding of her true intentions, and the way this term is being misused and misunderstood. She deliberately created the term to be as political as possible, and argued that everyone was neurodiverse.’ My new article on this topic is here.

Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales was once the slate capital of the world. Now it's pioneering grassroots alternatives to the devastation of post-industrial capitalism — and pointing a way toward a socialist society, writes @graceblakeley. tribunemag.co.uk/2022/11/radica…

Recycle Swap Shop is returning to Tilling Green! Sat 13 Jan, 0930-1130. Deadline to bring stuff is 1030. Clear out your old stuff and pick up some freebies! More details at transitionrye.org.uk/recycle-swap-s… @RyeObs @RyeINews @revpaulwhite @ryesussex @GardenRye

‘Using “populist” instead of more accurate but also stigmatising terms such as “far-right” or “racist” acts as a key legitimiser of far-right politics. It lends these parties & politicians a veneer of democratic support’ - @aurelmondon theconversation.com/look-to-the-ma… via @ConversationUK

Peace is hard, but peace is possible - and it is the only alternative to this tragic cycle of bloodshed and grief. My piece for @tribunemagazine on why the war on Gaza must end, now. tribunemag.co.uk/2023/11/jeremy…

**Why not get outside this summer? Meet other people from your local community?* *Share gardening skills and learn new ones?* *Support a local charity with some of your time?** There’s something for everyone to do at Hope Farm Community Garden. Contact [email protected]

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Drawing on post-work politics' turn towards questions of social reproduction, Kyle Lewis (@autonomous_coys) probes the place of care labour in prominent contemporary green futures 🌍 New on the @femfutprog blog 👇 autonomy.work/portfolio/beyo…

In The US You Can't Witness An Execution If Your Skirt Is Too Revealing Joe Nathan James Jr was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, against the wishes of his victim's family. caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/in-the-us-yo…

Descriptive statistics are essential to making complex analyses useful. #Stats wp.me/p4m9em-bAg

Entretien avec le chercheur Dennis Meadows, coauteur du « Rapport Meadows » l’un des monuments de l’écologie politique. Sa dernière version, «Les Limites à la croissance (dans un monde fini)» paraît le 3 mars dans les librairies. reporterre.net/Dennis-Meadows…

L’innovation, potion magique de l’économie française mediapart.fr/journal/cultur…

The launch of a 4-day week pilot scheme has seen hundreds of organisations express an interest – it’s just the latest sign that a shorter working week could be the way to fix our broken economy. tribunemag.co.uk/2022/01/four-d…

Rosa Luxemburg was killed on this day in 1919. Throughout her life, she remained committed to an internationalist version of socialism – one which fought for the working-class beyond national boundaries. tribunemag.co.uk/2021/03/the-in…

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Complete lies from @sajidjavid on #Marr this morning. The NHS has been underfunded for years - instead of putting resources into our NHS - Sajid and @BorisJohnson are selling it off Why not ask him about the disastrous Health and Care Bill @AndrewMarr9